Atlassian

Senior Software Engineer

Atlassian$176K — $230K *
Enterprise Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of backend engineering experience with distributed systems and data-heavy platforms
  • Strong backend engineering experience with JVM-based languages (Java, Kotlin preferred)
  • Experience with data-heavy platforms and streaming architectures like Kafka, Kinesis, or Flink
  • Proven ability to operate and optimize systems at scale for high throughput and low latency workflows
  • Multi-cloud or cloud-native infrastructure experience (AWS, GCP, or both)

Responsibilities

  • Take ownership and accountability for team systems and processes
  • Define coding techniques and patterns to ensure reliable and maintainable solutions
  • Drive informed decision-making using data and collaboration with other functions
  • Lead the team through change and help them adapt effectively
  • Provide timely feedback to colleagues as part of project delivery

Benefits

  • Health and wellbeing resources
  • Paid volunteer days
  • Support for family engagement
  • Community engagement opportunities
  • Wide range of perks designed to enhance work-life balance
Full Job Description
Overview

Responsibilities

Technical Skills:
  • Strong backend engineering experience with JVM-based languages (Java, Kotlin preferred)
  • Experience with data-heavy platforms and streaming architectures - Hands-on work with technologies like Kafka, Kinesis, SQS, Flink or similar event streaming systems. You should understand patterns like change data capture (CDC), backpressure management, delivery semantics, and how to build resilient data pipelines that maintain consistency across distributed systems.
  • Proven ability to operate and optimize systems at scale - Experience designing for high throughput and low latency complex distributed workflows.
  • Multi-cloud or cloud-native infrastructure experience (AWS, GCP, or both) - Familiarity with deploying and operating services across cloud providers, understanding cloud primitives (S3, object storage, message queues), infrastructure-as-code, and building platform capabilities that enable self-service for internal teams.

What you'll bring:
  • 5+ years of backend engineering experience with distributed systems and data-heavy platforms
  • Ownership and leadership - You take ownership and accountability for your team's systems, processes, and capabilities to ensure we meet our team goals. You work with your team to deliver projects with velocity and high quality. You lead your team through times of change and ambiguity and help them adapt.
  • Technical excellence and direction - You define coding techniques and patterns to the team that lead to more reliable and maintainable solutions. You're proficient in the team's codebase and its associated languages, tools, libraries, idioms, and patterns. Your code reviews define the standard and you use them to teach others within the team. You propose technical solutions in your team's domain and navigate ambiguity, understanding how your team's systems fit into larger capabilities.
  • Collaboration, decision-making and influence - You drive informed decisions for your team by using data and consulting with others. You contribute to decision making with product, design, and other functions as the team considers the customer and business impact of decisions. You lead with clarity and speed when making decisions and escalate quickly when support or more information is required. You provide timely feedback to your colleagues as part of delivery and influence others within your team towards positive impacts.


Qualifications

Compensation

At Atlassian, we strive to design equitable, explainable, and competitive compensation programs. To support this goal, the baseline of our range is higher than that of the typical market range, but in turn we expect to hire most candidates near this baseline. Base pay within the range is ultimately determined by a candidate's skills, expertise, or experience.

In the United States, we have three geographic pay zones. For this role, our current base pay ranges for new hires in each zone are:

Zone A: $176,400 - $230,300

Zone B: $159,300 - $207,975

Zone C: $146,700 - $191,525

This role may also be eligible for benefits, bonuses, commissions, and equity.

Please visit go.atlassian.com/payzones for more information on which locations are included in each of our geographic pay zones. However, please confirm the zone for your specific location with your recruiter.

Benefits & Perks

Atlassian offers a wide range of perks and benefits designed to support you, your family and to help you engage with your local community. Our offerings include health and wellbeing resources, paid volunteer days, and so much more. To learn more, visit go.atlassian.com/perksandbenefits

About Atlassian

Atlassian is a leading provider of collaboration, development, and issue tracking software for teams. With over 194,000 customers worldwide, including 85 of the Fortune 100, Atlassian is changing the way teams work. Our products help teams organize, discuss, and complete shared work. Atlassian has a unique business model that allows us to deliver software to teams of all sizes, from small startups to large enterprises. Our products are available on a subscription basis, with no upfront fees or long-term commitments. Atlassian was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Learn more about Atlassian
Size
6,433 employees
Market Cap
$31.9 billion
Industry
Net Income
-$1.1 billion
Founded
2002
5 Year Trend
+34.9%
Revenue
$1.8 billion
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